FRANKLIN EVANS: fugitivemisreadings

FRANKLIN EVANS (b. in 1967 in Reno, NV) received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1989 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1993.

He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including “franklinfootpaths,” Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; “fugitivemisreadings,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “selfportraitas,” FL Gallery, Milan, Italy; “paintingpainting,” Ameringer | Yohe | Yohe Gallery, New York, NY; “XLtime,” Abrons Art Center, New York, NY; “spreadsheetspace,”Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway; “headandhandinhand,” Spazio 22 - FL Gallery, Milan, Italy; “fourpaintingstwowallsiowatonewyork,” Steven Zevitas Gallery, New York, NY; “juddpaintings,” Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA; “juddrules,” Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA; “paintingassupermodel,” Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe Gallery, New York, NY; and “timepaths,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; “houstontohouston,” DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; “UNTITLED,” Federico Luger, Miami, FL; “flatbedfactum02,” Federico Luger, Milan, Italy; and “eyesontheedge,” Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY. 

Recent group exhibitions include “Walk The Line,” Platform Projects, Brooklyn, NY; “HyperGames,” FL Gallery, Milan, Italy; “Pole Santa Marta,” Contemporary/Contemporary, Verona, Italy; “Parameters,” The Clemente LES Gallery, New York, NY; “Rulers,” Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL; “Notebook,” 56 Henry, New York, NY; “Manet to Maya Lin,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; “Color Compositions,” Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; “Windows,” Next to Nothing, New York, NY; “Freestyle,” Atelier Les Copains, Milan, Italy; “The Nature Lab,” LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; “re.volt.ing,” The Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA; “La lama di Procopio,” Nuovo Spazio di Casso, Cosso, Italy; “Weekend,” Mindy Solomon, Miami, FL; “Legacy: Highlights from the Roanoke College Permanent Collection,” Olin Gallery, Salem, VA; “Stark Naked,” Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA; “2 Years of Looking,” New Art Projects, London, United Kingdom; “RELEVANT NOTES,” Cara Gallery, New York, NY; “Dynamic Pictorial Models,” 101/Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA; “Shelf Life: Kate Gilmore and Franklin Evans,” P3 Studio at The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, NV; Mykonos Biennale, Mykonos, Greece; and “Re/Post,” Storefront Ten Eyck, New York, NY. 

His work is included in many public and private collections including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY; AGI Verona, Verona, Italy; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH; Roanoke College, Salem, VA; Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

He is a recipient of the 2017-18 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY; The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FLin 2017; National Endowment for the Arts Fellow at The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH in 2016; Cosmopolitan/Art Production Fund P3Studio (collaboration with Kate Gilmore), Las Vegas, NV in 2015; NYFA Fellowship Painting, Suldal, Norway in 2015, among others. 

Franklin Evans lives and works in New York, NY.